Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex walked towards the area where the giant octopus had landed.

He didn't want to miss out on any potential rewards the hedgehog had for him.

While Alex was walking to that place, he looked at his left arm.

His left arm was no longer frozen, and it actually felt a bit hot. Sadly, his left arm was still severely injured. The freezing of organic material completely destroyed its structure, severing veins, and many other things.

Alex's left arm hadn't been in pain while it had been frozen, but as soon as it had thawed, Alex felt searing pain coming from it.

Alex couldn't really move it much, but he could still experiment with it.

The ethereal spire had entered Alex's left arm, and it remained there. He had already accidentally shot some cold air out of his left arm earlier, and Alex wanted to know how that worked.

Alex was already familiar with how it felt to move Mana, and he willed for the cold Mana in his left arm to explode.

SSSHH!

A blast of cold air left Alex's left arm. Since his left arm was still limply hanging around, the cold hit part of Alex's left leg and the ground.

The ice below Alex's left arm grew by a bit, and the coat on Alex's left leg completely froze.

However, Alex was too busy with something else.

As soon as Alex had willed the Ice Mana to explode, his arm started to burn. Well, it wasn't burning literally, but it felt like it was burning.

Alex quickly ran to one of the spots with destroyed ice. The octopus had destroyed a huge part of the lake when it had surfaced.

SSSSSS!

Alex put his arm directly into the icy water and gritted his teeth. The sound of something hot touching cold water could be heard as soon as Alex's arm hit the water.

'Fuck! That's so hot!' Alex thought. 'Are you serious?! You have Mana, and you follow the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You want to make stuff cold, so you have to make other stuff hot?! Why can't you just do something magical?!'

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out and moved it through the air for a bit.

His arm had received several burns.

However, it was coated with a thin coating of ice now.

His arm definitely felt colder than before.

'My arm is colder than before. So, let's try again!'

SSSHH!

Another blast of cold air, and Alex immediately dipped his arm into the cold water again.

'It's not as hot as previously, but it still feels like I touched a hot plate or something,' Alex concluded.

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out again.

'I wonder, can I use less?'

to suppress the Mana but also made

SSSH!

Alex's left arm again,

Alex's

uncomfortably hot, the temperature that would

left Alex's left

to how cold the air is. I'm not sure, but I think the amount of air leaving my arm is the same as the weight of my arm. Because of that, the blasts are quite

need to test

grabbed his left arm with his right arm and pointed it at his

a little bit. Just a tiny, little bit,'

SSSSSHH!

out of the arm. However, since he

some icicles had formed on

off his face and looked

a tiny fraction, and my arm probably only heated up by

outside temperature as a reference when cooling something, not the

theoretically, if it were -40°C right now, and if my arm were 20°C hot, and if I unleashed a blast equaling 20°C, the

as a complicated

means the power of this ability relies heavily on my environment. After all, if I were in some desert that's 50°C and I did the same thing, my arm would reach 40°C, and

'Sure, the creatures

hot desert wouldn't mind a blast of 30°C hot air. However, a beast living in a -40°C cold tundra would have

cold arm without issues. It would simply feel very dull, numbs, and awkward. However, I could unleash a blast of 35°C. In a cold climate, this would

like 60°C or something. Sure, my arm would get severe burns and

Alex scratched his chin.

are some uses for this ability in a fight. My sword is one-handed anyway, leaving

had been walking all this time, and he finally came close to

saw an area of absolute

many gigantic needles poked out of the unmoving

the hedgehog was calmly munching on the octopus, seemingly without a

one of the tentacles

one of the thicker tentacles of the octopus, and just its

was like Alex stood before the

tentacle was probably fifty meters long, which simply seemed

onto the tentacle and walked along with

spot where the hedgehog

but after some seconds, it noticed

head to Alex

a bit

all, it was currently munching on the creator and actual owner of the ethereal

Alex smelled similar

He hoped not!

of sniffing, the hedgehog pulled its head back and

at

at Alex

that, the hedgehog walked to the tentacle where

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

of biting, the hedgehog had severed the tentacle from the

BANG!

hedgehog threw the tentacle a couple of meters